The annual Immanuel & Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival will bring 80 music students to the University of Houston for three weeks of rehearsals, private lessons and master classes by day and a multitude of concerts - many of them free to the public - by night.
Young musicians from around the world have descended upon UH for the three-week long Texas Music Festival.The school year might be finished, but the University of Houston campus is bustling for the next three weeks with the annual Immanuel & Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival. Approximately 80 music students will journey to the university for rehearsals, private lessons and master classes by day and a multitude of concerts — many of them free to the public — by night.
As the years have gone by, the festival has grown to include partners. This year, it merged its young artist competition with a similar program from the Houston Symphony to form the Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition. “The big prize that we get out of it for our student who wins is that they will be invited back to play with the Houston Symphony next year. For any young musician, this will be a real touchstone moment,” he added.The Texas Music Festival also introduced the Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series this year, an evolution of its International Piano Festival.
The guests pianists this year are Amy Yang, Awadagin Pratt and Vadim Kholodenko. Yang’s story is a standout for this year as her connections to Houston and the university run deep. Three other guest conductors will join festival to sharpen the musician's skills: Andrew Grams, Gerard Schwarz and Franz Anton Krager."It's very important that the conductors who work with the orchestra are not only musicians of the highest level but also are used to conducting major orchestras.
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